Zealous Week!

Finished the alphabet! This week was the final letter - Z! We began on Monday with some letter and sound review...

Then while Kieryn was at school, Ronan and I enjoyed some sun and some "big trucks". We watched the excavator load rocks for nearly 45 minutes. Ronan loved that AND playing in the dirt!

On Tuesday we talked about zebras and made zebra masks!

On Wednesday we practiced our zigging and our zagging... we walked, jumped, rode cars, drove cars, bear crawled... they had way more fun with it than I expected!

On Thursday we traced number "0" zero! Then we practiced some counting and work with zero. 

On Friday we made a sleeping z and they showed me what it looks like to sleep (so cute - They both did pretend snoring too). We did some dancing and then packed up to go to Maryland!

On Saturday we had beautiful weather for the National Zoo!! What a way to end the alphabet and letter z week!

Kieryn and Tiana had so much fun together this weekend!

 

Ronan fell asleep for the last 30-40 minutes of the trip, but his favorite animal to see was the tiger!

We had to take a pic by the zebra of course!

While at the Copp house, we celebrated Tiana's 8th birthday! It's so hard to believe that she's getting so big so quickly! We love you Tiana!

We spent the rest of our visit outside enjoying the warm weather!

On Sunday night we made our official announcement... Kieryn and Ronan are excited to be moving back to Kansas in Dec./Jan. for Daddy's future job at K-State. We'll miss lots of people here in PA, but are looking forward to being back in Wildcat country!

Until next week!

YES, we had fun!

Just love these two...

We began letter "Y" week with a yogurt snack and practice with the "y" sound and tracing.

On Tuesday we reviewed some things that begin with "y" and colored... did some sewing with yellow yarn...

And then we played a yummy/yucky game... Had the kids close their eyes and then try different things to test if they were yummy or yucky! Loved it!... and didn't have anything yucky...

On Wednesday we made a "y" out of yellow squares...

and did a yellow matching game.

While Kieryn was at school on Wednesday, Ronan got out and enjoyed some nice weather (before it turned cold for the rest of the week). 

We ran, explored, and gathered some walnuts to crack later with the hammers...

so fun!

On Thursday we watched some yo-yo tricks on YouTube, practiced tracing, and then tried the yo-yo out for ourselves...

We ended the week with a "Y" hunt in the house on Friday and a trip to Bass Pro on Saturday... we're still waiting for the 70+ degree weather... fingers crossed for next week to be warmer! 

eXcellent Week!

Kieryn ended last week with a birthday party at the kidmazium on Sunday afternoon. She and all the kids had so much fun!

Then we began letter X week coloring/tracing and matching with a xylophone!

We had nice weather most of this week, so we took our letter x activity outdoors on Tuesday. We practiced following directions. We had a box and after picking one of the instruction cards, the kids had to place the fox where it said... inside, under, left, right, on top, etc. They actually had fun doing this one!

On Wednesday we talked about x-rays. We watched a short video about a child getting an x-ray on his broken arm. Then we made one...

Then we had a snack and made the letter x with our cereal...

On Thursday we made our first trip to ZooAmerica and CoCo Castle park for a picnic. The kids had so much fun with their friends Callen and Cole!

Later that day we learned to play tick-tack-toe. Kieryn is pretty good at it! I was surprised she picked it up so quickly!

We spent Friday and all of the weekend outside as much as possible... it was beautiful weather! We ended the week with a Twix dessert after our bbq brauts and hotdog, corn on the cob, and coleslaw meal! WE LOVE THE WARMER WEATHER!!